---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid policies and procedures concerning telehealth services"
description: "MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid policies and procedures concerning telehealth services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 589"
citation: "Louisiana HB 589 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7ddbbfe-0146-4953-8d3f-a3e355d4d54a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238333"
source_hash: "758b0e448bbbb898502a9879aa1e3a61f394b191a7463167cb6d56edaee66377"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana HB 589 (2020) — MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid policies and procedures concerning telehealth services

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB589 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163742)
2. **HB589 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180309)
3. **HB589 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169531)
4. **HB589 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176303)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#349) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#80) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 88. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7ddbbfe-0146-4953-8d3f-a3e355d4d54a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).